That's the point of the tension and feedback between the polarities, the nodes and networks, in this case.
It is when we try to frame them monolithically that it is either the individual, or the collective. The irony of which is it's another case of "Us" versus "Them." Therefore "Us" as a bunch of individuals being another group identifier and hive mind.
The history of which is that it's often been a tool for the oligarchs to attack the state. Michael Hudson did an interesting series of books on how this played out in Antiquity;
I was just at my daughter's law school graduation and the keynote speaker, current governor of Utah, made similar observations about endorphins/pleasure, versus serotonin/happiness, that we get the first from receiving and the second from giving. So both strengthening ourselves, as well as the larger social organism. Yet while the first has to be constantly repeated, the other is more gradual and feeds back into our own well being.
The sense of the past in front and the future behind is apparently the Eastern and Native American view.
Which in contrast, goes to the individual versus contextual view. As individual entities moving through our space, we move toward the future and away from the past. While as part of the larger reality, we see events after they occur, then the energy transitions to other events, observers.
Thanks for the response. Trying to get people to look away from the various train wrecks going on and thinking about the processes leading up to them is akin to banging my head on a wall.
